Poet Victoria Chang stood on a stage behind a podium, setting up a timer before reading several poems from her new book "With My Back to the World," which touches on issues such as feminism, art, depression and grief. The idea for the book, she explained to the small crowd at her poetry reading, was inspired by one of the screenprints in Agnes Martin's series, which is titled by the same name. Chan began with the reading of "On a Clear Day," which made reference to a gunman's mass shooting at... Read this story
